SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
Sure, but they’re not hiring Open AI to do custom work. They’re hiring some third party who well might use their own servers. Even if they are hiring Open AI there will be a thousand competitors in no time. There’s no meaningful cost barrier to set up a local AI. Sure scaling costs a little, but really not much. It’s a foolish investment that only works if people are incompetent… okay so might work a little, but it’s still stupid.
Sure, but they’re not hiring Open AI to do custom work. They’re hiring some third party who well might use their own servers. Even if they are hiring Open AI there will be a thousand competitors in no time. There’s no meaningful cost barrier to set up a local AI. Sure scaling costs a little, but really not much. It’s a foolish investment that only works if people are incompetent… okay so might work a little, but it’s still stupid.